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Triumph of hope over experience

24 January 2008 By Edward Hadas

European investors had to choose on Thursday morning. Would they worry a E5bn fraud at SocGen was the start of a grim trend? Or would they salivate that a $15bn rescue of the US monolines might possibly avert many times greater losses? They chose hope over fear for now.

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